The word “form” in definition (3) naturally calls hylomorphism to mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Theory of Ideas] Reference

Aristotle's hylomorphism assumes certain powers in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ORGANICISM] Reference

The 2000-year old thing is hylomorphism, the inextricable unity of matter and form.    From Wordnik.com.  [March 18th, 2009] Reference

For excellent reasons, nobody buys universal hylomorphism at this late stage of human history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Us and Stem - Only The Daily Show Can Help Us Now] Reference

Drawing upon Aristotelian hylomorphism, he argues that it is the matter of existence that acquires forms as it constantly changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mulla Sadra] Reference

For universal hylomorphism, such entities cannot be truly immaterial, and yet they are obviously quite unlike familiar physical objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binarium Famosissimum] Reference

The theories of universal hylomorphism and plurality of forms are found together in many authors from the twelfth and thirteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binarium Famosissimum] Reference

Platonic organicism, and Aristotelian hylomorphism have been recurrent ideas and pervasive influences in the development of the sciences of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

If this reconstruction is more or less correct, then it is clear why universal hylomorphism and plurality of forms can be viewed as conceptually linked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binarium Famosissimum] Reference

Libet proposes a theory of brain-mind interactionism (known in philosophy and theology as hylomorphism) opposed to a strict Cartesian substance dualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Review: Quantum Enigma] Reference

There, although continuing the Aristotelian tradi - tion of hylomorphism, he continued the criticism begun by John Philoponus (fl. fifth century A.D.) against.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

He criticizes, for example, the Peripatetic hylomorphic division of matter and form, since hylomorphism becomes incompatible with the ontic luminosity of reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suhrawardi] Reference

In other words, Leibniz can be interpreted as advocating, at least in this period, a kind of Aristotelian hylomorphism, in which substances are composites of matter and form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] Reference

On the other hand, as early as 1943 Daniel Callus writes of a certain John Blund, an early-thirteenth century Englishman who rejected both universal hylomorphism and plurality of forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binarium Famosissimum] Reference

Protevi 2001 looks at the accompanying notions of hylomorphism and self-organization in the history of philosophy; Bonta and Protevi 2004 treat Deleuze and dynamic systems theory with regard to its potentials for geographical work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilles Deleuze] Reference

Although many aspects of Aristotle's causal theories were extensively and critically debated, this basic hylomorphism persisted throughout; and it is this, rather than anything more arcane, which often poses the greatest problems in assimilating, or evaluating, medieval thought on these topics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Causation] Reference

Thus, although Gilson and some other twentieth-century scholars have paired the theories of universal hylomorphism and plurality of forms under the title “binarium famosissimum,” and although it is certainly true that many medieval authors held both theories, there is no evidence that in medieval times they were ever thought of as a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binarium Famosissimum] Reference

And since hylomorphism is the conceptual framework that underlies most of Aristotelian theory from metaphysics and philosophy of mind to biology and literary theory, it looks as if his supposedly universal and objective theories are gendered, and it looks as if his negative characterization of women tarnishes his philosophical theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist History of Philosophy] Reference

At this point the theory of hylomorphism and the doctrine of substantial form would apply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

How far even dynamism is irreconcilable with hylomorphism (q. v.) in its most general meaning, it is difficult to determine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Aristotelean-Scholastic hylomorphism, i.e. the system which teaches that the essential constitution of bodies consists in the substantial union of materia prima and forma substantialis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

My own view of the relationship between the mind and the brain tends to hylomorphism, specifically the variant of traditional Aristotelian hylomorphism called Thomistic dualism, which is the view that the soul (of which the mind is a part) is the substantial form of the body (of which the brain is a part).    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution News & Views] Reference

This view is part of the doctrine now termed “universal hylomorphism,” according to which every created substance is a composite of form and matter (see Weisheipl.    From Wordnik.com.  [William of Auvergne] Reference

That Descartes rejects hylomorphism is supported by (i) his generally negative remarks about it, (ii) the fact that he dispenses with it in his physical science, and (iii) items (1) and (2) in his ontology above: his substances are capable of existing independently in a way that substantial forms (requiring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Theory of Ideas] Reference

Aristotelian hylomorphism towards pantheism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

1.1 Universal hylomorphism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binarium Famosissimum] Reference